Posted by P Pron on 09/23/86 11:40

Sean Black wrote:
|| In article <1140533433.444208.326940@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
|| Damon <google@dshawcross.co.uk> writes
|||
||| Damon wrote:
|||| H. Cotton wrote:
||||| CD Wow are ok. DVD Pacific are much better. Delivery times are
||||| only a few days too.
||||
|||| Does anyone else find that DVDPacific prices are a bit dearer than
|||| you see on the site by the time they appear on your credit card
|||| statement. I work things out to be �12 odd inc postage but when
|||| they appear on my statement they are over �13. Could be a
|||| fluctuation in the exchange rate or could they be converting it at
|||| a less than favourable rate on purpose?
|||
||| Sorry to reply to my own post but I checked and it is true. My order
||| for the Aristocrats at DVDPacific showed as �12.66 inc postage on
||| the previous orders page on the site and on my Visa statement it
||| shows as �13.09 the say postage is estimated but that is rubbish as
||| they have set postage prices and an exchange difference of 43p is a
||| bit much on relatively small amount. The difference never seems to
||| be in my favour either. At least with DVDsoon you paid straight
||| away and it was the price you worked it out at on the day, not the
||| slightly higher price a few days later.
|||
||| Quick delivery though
|||
|| Maybe your credit card company have a surcharge for foreign currency
|| transactions or they might use a different exchange rate to DVD
|| Pacific. --
|| Sean Black

Absolutely - it isn't DVDPacific that does the conversion - it is the credit
card company, and they use the rate they feel like using.

I regularly find that buying from caiman.com through Amazon.co.uk undercuts
other retailers when taking postage into account as well - and they're
really quick.....

paul

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